The sudden change on the field was obviously unexpected, and Cao Ren was shocked.
In the dark night, he didn't know how many people were coming from the other side. In addition, he was frightened out of courage by being chased before, so he immediately shouted: "Li Qian, you are the queen, retreat first!"
Shen Chen had long noticed that Zhao Yun had tightened his grip on the dagger at his waist, and immediately shouted: "Uncle Zilong, now!"
Zhao Yun instantly drew out his dagger and threw it hard with his left hand. The dagger shot towards Cao Ren's back like a meteor. The distance between them was not that far. Cao Ren only escaped more than ten feet, probably only more than twenty meters.
Now Cao Ren mounted his horse and wanted to escape, but how could the horse speed up so quickly?
The dagger shot quickly, heading straight for the back of Cao Ren's neck. As if he was aware of the sharp blade coming from behind, at the critical moment, Cao Ren turned his head abruptly.
"ah!"
Screams rang out, and in the dark night, no one knew where the dagger hit, but Cao Ren was still running wildly and running away.
Li Qian and others around him quickly organized soldiers to prepare to defend against the enemy.
In fact, when Li Qian arrived at the beginning, the formation was very scattered. In addition, Li Qian was eager to save Cao Ren, so he only brought more than a dozen cavalry over quickly, which caused the team to be disjointed.
Therefore, although he has a thousand soldiers, they are far apart from each other. For example, there are less than a hundred soldiers around him, and the rest are like fire dragons.
At this moment, a temporary formation was formed. Liu Bei thought this was an opportunity to defeat the enemy, and waved his double sword: "Kill!"
Guan Yu and Zhang Fei arrived late. Their horses were not good enough to carry them.
Upon hearing this, the two men immediately led the cavalry to kill him.
However, although the two sides were fighting, it was actually Liu Bei, Guan Yu, Zhang Fei, and Zhao Yun who led more than a dozen cavalry followers and Li Qian led about a hundred guards.
Including the members of the Huangmenting clan, they were all far away.
Because this is in the plains and wilderness, shouts can be carried far away. Although they sound loud, they may be one or two miles apart and neither party can arrive immediately in a short time.
Soon Liu Bei and the others fought with Li Gan and others for a while, killing Li Gan and retreating, but Cao Ren had already taken advantage of this opportunity to escape a hundred feet away.
It was definitely too late to catch up at this distance, but Liu Bei and others still wanted to ride their horses and catch up, but Shen Chen's voice sounded behind them: "Xuan Degong, stop chasing."
Liu Bei reined in his horse and stopped. There were figures in front of him. Li Qian's large army had already come over to meet him. He and Guan Yu and Zhang Fei couldn't catch up even if they wanted to, so he shook his head and said: "It's a pity that he ran away, otherwise we would have taken advantage of him." It would be nice to use Cao Ren’s head to pay homage to the souls of Xuzhou.”
Shen Chen said in a deep voice: "It doesn't matter, I'll charge some interest first this time."
His eyes were on the ground.
Under the moonlight, Zhao Yun's dagger on the ground was stained with blood, and there was an ear cut off by a sharp blade on the side!
"Ha ha ha ha!"
Cao Ren's maniacal laughter came again, echoing far in the wilderness: "Liu Bei, if you want to kill me, you are not qualified. Shen Chen, I let you escape this time, but next time I will kill the entire Qin clan!"
"Cao Ren, listen to me!"
Shen Chen roared angrily: "I, Shen Chen, and you, the Cao family, swear not to be at odds with each other. One day, I will take your and Cao Cao's heads to pay homage to the hundreds of thousands of people in Xuzhou!"
"Go ahead and dream."
The sound got farther and farther, and the footsteps and shouts of Li Qian's army got closer and closer.
Looking at Cao Ren's retreating figure, Shen Chen's eyes were about to burst into flames.
"well."
Liu Bei sighed: "Let's go."
The four of them turned their horses' heads and left in the direction of Huangmen Pavilion.
The mountain fire in the distance continued. The two hundred soldiers brought by Cao Ren had been wiped out, but there were also many casualties among the folks in Huangmenting.
During the day the next day, the entire Huangmen Pavilion was in a state of mourning. Yesterday, we did an inventory and found that there were thirty-seven households in Zhenyang, with more than one hundred and seventy villagers. Only about forty people survived, and the rest were destroyed. slaughter.
There was also Ding Xiangyong, who also suffered more than 100 casualties in the battle with Cao Ren's army. In this way, more than 1,000 villagers in Huangmenting, more than 300 people died overnight, a quarter less.
Half of them are young village laborers, which is a serious blow to the entire Huangmenting people. Even if they move to the south in the future, they will still lack labor ability.
However, it was not without gains. After wiping out Cao Ren's soldiers, the weapons and equipment they left behind just made up for the tribe's lack of weapons.
After a few days of training like this, the clan's migration to the south will be a bit faster.
It's just that such a sudden change occurred in the clan. Every family was mourning and crying, and some families were almost wiped out. Walking along several townships within ten miles of Huangmenting, the entire village of Zhengyangju was wiped out, and the rest of the townships were also crying. Continuously, hanging plain silk all over.
Deng Hong happened to stay in the Deng family's old house yesterday to discuss the sale of some land with several elder brothers. He escaped from danger. At this time, he summoned the elders of the second clan of Deng and Shen, as well as some participants such as Shen Chen, to discuss the meeting.
In the old house of the Deng family, everyone's expressions were not good-looking. Several families had relatives dead, and there were still tears on their faces. Deng Zhao was also injured yesterday and was wrapped in gauze and sat on the mat.
He looked around and saw the sad faces on everyone's faces. He sighed and said: "Fortunately, Shen Chen reminded me and I escaped the previous massacre. This time, Cao Jun's revenge was obviously because Shen Chen reminded the villagers to flee. If it hadn't been for Ah Morning, all of us are dead."
"Yes, Ah Chen, thanks to you this time, the villagers probably won't have any objections to the move south."
The elder Deng Mao set the tone for the meeting.
Deng Zhao's words were to first confirm Shen Chen's contribution, while Deng Mao wanted to completely finalize the clan relocation.
Although they had escaped disaster before, the entire Huangmenting and even some elders of the Deng and Shen clan still couldn't make up their minds about the relocation. The procrastination these days may not be due to the reluctance to part with their property.
As the saying goes, it is hard to leave the homeland when people leave their hometown. Dozens of people in an ordinary village may quarrel with each other, let alone hundreds of households in Huangmenting. It is normal for people to have different opinions.
It's just that Deng Mao, Deng Zhao and other Dengchen clan elders are sensible and know that if they don't find a way to leave the war quagmire of the Central Plains, the whole village and even the whole pavilion will die.
Therefore, the authority of the village elders was used to forcefully suppress a large number of objections.
But what happened yesterday has already told everyone that it is impossible to simply think that Cao Cao's army will be safe after leaving. Cao Cao only left for a short time. One day he will come back. If he doesn't want to die, he must leave.
Now that the facts are before us, even if it is difficult to part with property and land, we must make a decision. You don't have to leave if you don't want to, just stay here to fend for yourself. At least the Deng and Shen clans will definitely relocate.
"Alas, in these troubled times, we have to move."
"Originally I wanted to take a chance, but Cao Cao wouldn't let it go. He hates Tao Shijun too deeply."
"Even if Tao Shijun killed his father, why would he involve us and other villagers? Now the villagers are suffering heavy casualties, and we are forced to move to our homeland. Alas, that thief Cao"
The village chiefs and representatives of the villagers of each clan are all devastated. If they leave their hometown and go to a strange land to survive, they will lose a lot.
Living under someone else's roof, relying on someone else's breath, lingering for a while, dignity. But no matter what, even if you live in humiliation, it is better than losing your life.
Seeing everyone's sadness, Deng Mao said in deep voice: "Don't worry too much, everyone. Nanyang is the ancestral land of my Deng family. Although most of the ethnic groups have moved away, there are still a few who have survived. This time we go to Xinye, it's a good time to meet the people." If you return to your ancestors, you should be able to have a place to survive."
When the Deng family moved to their homeland, it was in the third year of Emperor Yanguang of the Han Dynasty, that is, in 124 AD, which is exactly 70 years ago. Deng Mao is 57 years old and has not experienced clan migration, but his father and grandfather experienced.
After the Empress Dowager Deng died of illness, the eunuch Jiang Jing, the wet nurse Wang Sheng of Emperor Han'an, and the Changshi Fan Feng and others framed the Marquis of Xiping Deng Hong, deposed him as a commoner, and framed the Deng family. As a result, the Deng family declined.
At that time, there were two main Deng clans. One was the Luoyang Deng clan, which was an official in the capital and had a large number of clans. The other was the Xinye Deng clan from its hometown, which protected the ancestral land.
After Deng Hong was deposed and the Deng family was framed, both clans chose to migrate on a large scale. Today's Xiangben Deng clan is a branch of the Xinye Deng clan. At that time, more than a hundred clan members migrated. After decades, The development of Dingkou has doubled.
A big family like theirs with a family background has a family tree.
Deng Mao felt that Nanyang was now occupied by Liu Biao. After returning to Xinye, he might be able to allocate land and start over again by taking out his family tree and identifying his ancestors.
However, Deng Mao was actually just trying to comfort everyone. Although it was true that they were from the Xinye Deng family, after all, they had left their hometown and were no longer in their hometown. It was still unknown whether people would recognize them.
What's more, in today's troubled times, supplies are already very scarce. The arrival of people like them will squeeze out the local people's survival resources. Maybe they won't be accepted when they return to their hometown.
But the others didn't think so much. After hearing Deng Mao's words, they thought that their lives would be settled after going to Jingzhou. They all smiled and the atmosphere became much better.
Everyone began to discuss how to return to the village gathering to persuade the villagers to leave. At the same time, there was also a matter of gathering land and property in the village for centralized sales and sorting.
Everyone over there was still discussing this matter, while Shen Chen sat aside without saying a word, silently thinking about something.
He is thinking about something.
Although Cao Ren is hateful, luckily his life was not harmed yesterday.
This is because Liu Bei, who is currently in Xuzhou, is not yet worthy of assistance. His character, character, and way of thinking about problems are still too simple, and he has not yet grown to a certain level.
So you need to give him time to improve.
According to the historical process, Liu Bei would be attacked by Lu Bu and Yuan Shu in turns in Xuzhou, and eventually had to flee Xuzhou and go to Xudu.
Many people thought that when he went to Xu, he was relying on Cao Cao, but in fact, Han Xian Emperor Liu Xie was already in Xu Du at that time. It was Han Xian Emperor Liu Xie who Liu Bei went to Xu Du to defect to, not Sikong Cao Mengde.
At that time, Liu Xie still had some real power, because after Liu Xie arrived in Xudu, many powerful families and celebrities from all walks of life went to Xudu to seek refuge. The royalist faction was so powerful that even the guards at the Xudu palace were
Liu Xie controls.
In the second year of Jian'an, Liu Xie was furious because Cao Cao killed Yilang Zhao Yan without authorization. Cao Cao was so frightened that his face changed, and he kowtowed as if smashing garlic. When he saw the Tiger Guards standing with swords on the left and right again, he was sweating profusely, and he did not dare to return to the court.
please.
This situation would last until Cao Cao defeated Yuan Shu, conquered Lu Bu in the east, wiped out all the princes in Henan, and finally wiped out Yuan Shao's main force in the Battle of Guandu, before his own prestige and power reached its peak.
It was during this period that Liu Xie's power weakened significantly.
The palace guards were gradually controlled by Cao Cao's people, and many royalists were either eliminated by Cao Cao or defected to Cao Cao.
That's when the clothing edict happened.
It was at that time that Liu Bei realized that Cao Cao had completely controlled the emperor, and under the pretext of taking the imperial edict, he fled Xudu before and after the Battle of Guandu, went to Yuan Shao, and finally left Runan to rely on Liu Biao.
It can be said that the experience in Xudu, Yingchuan, in the past few years has given Liu Bei a lot of growth, and also allowed him to hone himself in official circles and officials.
And if Cao Ren is killed at this time, then Liu Bei's group and Cao Cao's group will have a deadly feud.
Although Liu Xie had some real power in the early days, most of the military power was still in the hands of Cao Cao. All he had was the command of the palace guards and the support of the royalists.
After Liu Bei was defeated by Lu Bu and Yuan Shu, he went to Xudu to rely on Liu Xie. Even if Liu Xie protected him and Cao Cao controlled the military power, it was very likely that Liu Bei would be forcibly removed like the one who killed Yilang Zhao Yan.
Therefore, Cao Ren was not killed yesterday, which is a good thing in the future.
Since there was no mortal enmity between the two parties and Liu Bei went to Liu Xie, there was no good reason for Cao Cao to kill Liu Bei.
Moreover, Liu Xie was able to hand over the clothing edict to Liu Bei, which means that when Liu Bei went to Xudu, he quickly gained Liu Xie's trust. If there was no reason to kill Liu Bei, Cao Cao would most likely be counterattacked by Liu Xie.
So this confirms one thing.
That is, Liu Bei defected to Liu Xie between 196 and 200 AD. As long as Cao Ren does not die, Cao Cao will most likely not kill him, and history will continue according to its original course.
So not killing Cao Ren now is regrettable in the short term, but in the long run, it is a good thing.
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It’s just that the hatred in my heart is hard to get rid of!
Shen Chen clenched his fists, his veins bulged, and the anger in his eyes was still blazing like flames.
No matter what, the blood debt of hundreds of relatives gathered in Zhuanyang will not dissipate.
Shen Chen had not personally experienced the life and death of hundreds of thousands of people in Xuzhou, so he did not have much feeling.
But the elders in my hometown were still living people one day ago, but today they have become ghosts who died in vain.
How could this blood debt calm down Shen Chen's mood?
His eyes were red, filled with resentment.
The hatred of genocide is as deep as the sea.
at this moment.
Shen Chen silently swore in his heart.
As long as he, Shen Chen, is still there, and there are still members of the Deng Shen clan, the hatred between Cao Ren and Huangmenting will never end.
One day, I, Shen Chen, will tear you Cao Ren into pieces. To avenge the people who died in Xuzhou, to avenge the people who died in Huangmenting, and to avenge the death of the people in Huangmenting, as well as the blood debt of hundreds of relatives in Zhuanyang, will definitely make people You, Cao, will repay you!
This hatred is irreconcilable!
I did consider writing Cao Ren to death. I planned to write this book in a cruel way. Whoever deserves to die will die without any delay. But since I am writing about Ji Hanwen, I have also analyzed Cao Cao’s strength in the Central Plains for everyone. Liu Bei did not The only chance I have to make a comeback is to go to Yizhou according to the normal route. By then the protagonist will have grown up and I can just start the main story. But if I kill Cao Ren, Liu Bei will definitely be gone, so there is nothing I can do about it, but according to my plan It won't be long before the protagonist will take revenge. Some readers, please don't rush. I threatened the author to abandon the book. I must have my own considerations and plans. The protagonist's revenge will be from morning to night. The outline is that Cao Ren will be in the first volume. Death is just a matter of living a few more chapters. Why are you so eager to force me to change the outline?
In addition, if you feel uncomfortable, please turn to the chapter, there is a chapter on the death of Cao Ren at the end.